Bug 431002

Summary: Yast2 mail client lacking important features
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.1 Reporter: James Rome <jamesrome>
Component: YaST2Assignee: Peter Varkoly <varkoly>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity: Enhancement    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: Factory   
Target Milestone: RC 1   
Hardware: x86-64   
OS: Other   
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Found By: Customer Services Priority:
Business Priority: Blocker: ---
Marketing QA Status: --- IT Deployment: ---

Description James Rome 2008-09-30 18:15:31 UTC 
Comcast blocked me from sending mail on the usual port. The Yast2 mail module (which configures PostFix) does not offer the user the ability to pick the mail port, or to enable TLS.

In /etc/sysconfig/postfix, I can change the port to 587 (required by Comcast) by adding :587 to smtp.comcast.net. But if I run the yast mail module again, it objects to this. 

The ability to set the smtp port and encryption for the mail transfer agent are critical, and need to be supported in the Yast2 tool. The inability to do this blocked my tripwire reports, and could have led to a security issue.
Comment 1 Peter Varkoly 2008-10-28 15:47:26 UTC 
Set the POSTFIX_SMTP_TLS_CLIENT variable to yes and execute 
SuSEconfig -module postfix
This enables th smtp daemon to send mail vie TLS.

Do you use the server of Comcast as mail-releay ?
If yes you can set:

POSTFIX_RELAYHOST="<comcast.server>:587"
Comment 2 James Rome 2008-10-28 17:58:13 UTC 
I agree that you can do this. My point was that you should be able to do it via Yast2, and worse, if you do this manually, and then run Yast2 mail configuration, it croaks. It won't let you put the port number in.

These are reasonable capabilities to build into Yast2 IMHO.
Comment 3 Peter Varkoly 2008-11-16 15:17:41 UTC 
I've tested it, and you can define the port on the UI.
Now I've enhanced the "Outgoing Mail" wizard with a
check box "The server use TLS"
Comment 4 Bernhard Wiedemann 2016-04-15 09:12:22 UTC 
This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration:
This bug (431002) was mentioned in
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/3860 Factory / yast2-mail